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Stuart Batterman, professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Global Public Health at the School of Public Health, studies the impacts of the environment on health, including air pollution control engineering, air quality monitoring, indoor air quality, exposure assessment, and environmental epidemiology.
Michigan Public Health researchers are supporting a new project aimed at tracking air pollution caused by truck traffic in Detroit neighborhoods.
Detroit is one of the worst cities in the country for people with asthma, leaving adults and children to deeply struggle with what can be a fatal disease, according to a new report published Thursday by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA).
Backed by a $26 million federal grant, researchers at three Michigan universities, a leading health care system, and a state agency will continue a long-term study of how exposure to environmental factors during pregnancy and early childhood can impact health for a lifetime.
People living and working in Detroit are exposed to elevated levels of a variety of air pollutants. Six years after releasing a Public Health Action Plan, work is moving forward on community initiatives to expand responses to air pollution in Detroit.
With the support of a $2.78 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, researchers at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Oakland University are teaming up to develop wearable technology able to identify particulate matter pollution such as soot and toxic metals generated by cars, trucks and industrial sources.